21.   However, as the handover date neared, Turkey baulked at the financial cost such a move would entail.

22.   Both parties are trying to tone down their anti-immigration rhetoric as the polling date nears in a bid to sway the Hispanic community.

23.   Japanese tourists are also staying away from Tahiti as the date nears for the resumption of nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll, which is also in French Polynesia.